Nicole Keet

Review of Hotel Arts

The room we were in had a heater that was so loud ...

The room we were in had a heater that was so loud when ever it kicked in every hour waking me. I barely slept all night.
The food was disappointing.. we got the five course meal with "premium" wine pairings. Three courses were fish (so all white wine) the first course was so salty it was almost painful, and it was fish in a gelatin. They had a warm carrot salad that barely had carrots and looked like slaw with bubbles on it.
On the plus side the desert was delicious.
Two of the wines were so terrible we could not bring ourselves to drink them, one actually tasted like it was soaked in dirty socks.
The waiter was actually awesome though, kept us laughing, apologized and after taking away two of the wines came back with a full portion of a really good glass of wine.
I suppose if I had not spent $300 on dinner for two, and $100 on parking (that I figured would be covered given staying at the hotel) and then cost of the hotel room where I wasn't even able to sleep it would have been okay of an experience. I would have had a cheaper and similar experience going to a cheap hotel with an awesome swimming pool and driving to a nice restaurant. I was trying my best to be positive but I don't think I will be returning unfortunately because I was so excited.